1. Went to see The Simpsons movie on Saturday. Bonus points: we saw it in Manhattan, with friends. IMHO, the first 20 minutes are hilarious, and then it becomes a by-the-numbers Simpsons episode, albeit longer and bigger. Which is to say, it's funny, but not the funniest movie (or Simpsons episode) I'd ever seen. Certainly nowhere near as shocking nor as gasping-for-breath-hilarious as the South Park movie, but, again, that's not necessarily a fair comparison.

2. Most of the rest of the weekend was spent obsessively listening to the yet-to-be-released Forms record. An argument can be made that it's somewhat repetitive (pretty much every song is in 5/4), and a lot of the songs sound the same (similar keys, similar grooves), but, nonetheless, it's been hitting a sweet spot in my brain and it just won't stop. And so I started working on a new song of my own, which is in 6/4 (I couldn't get it to work in 5/4), but my initial recordings sound kinda crappy. It sounds great in my head, though, so I'm gonna keep plugging away.

3. Oh, and last night's Flight of the Conchords was one of the best yet. Indeed, there are too many motha ucka's uckin' with my shi-.

Sout Park vs Simpson showdown

(Anonymous)

July 30th, 2007,07:07 pm

So it's been forever since I have seen South Park or the Simpson since I gave up tv a couple years ago but I managed to catch a South Park episode the other day where they were trying to destroy The Family Guy (rightfully so) and Cartman had enlisted the help of Bart Simpson. During the episode, Cartman asked Bart what the worst thing he ever did was and Bart's response was that he cut the head of a statue. Cartman says, "Oh yeah, man that's pretty bad. The worst thing I ever did was kill my enemey's parents and then feed them to him in his chili."

Re: music nerd re: forms

You're right, of course, although Borges shouldn't count since it's not really a "song"... and Blue Whale feels like it's in 6/4 (and the verses are constructed in 3 6/4 phrases)... that said, "Getting It Back" is in 5/4, as is "Knowledge In Hand", and those are 2 of my favorites on the new one. So is "Focus", come to think of it. And "Red Gun". So that's 4 songs in 5/4. (Not to mention "Seagull" and "Stravinsky" from the first album.)